count sheets

[joeshaf]

where are instrument count sheets put in your or's. On the outside or in the tray with the instruments.

joe

[Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN]

Inside.

[sdaley1026]

Hi Joe,

Our count sheets are inside the kit, but the hospital I came from, had them on the outside (which I liked better). Why do you ask? :)

Sue

[maeyken]

Ours are in a rack on the counter outside the rooms. Sometimes they come with the patient's chart, if they have gone to the holding area.

[umakemesmile]

Ours are tucked in one of the folds of the paper wrapper.

[MamaCheese]

Ours are in the tray with the instruments.

[mamamiah]

The count sheets are inside the trays.

[ewattsjt]

Ours are in the patient's chart.

[ebear, BSN, RN]

The patient's chart?????

[mikethern]

Inside, but outside would be better so that the scrub person would never hand the circulator a bloody count sheet from a tray that was opened during the middle of a case.

[ewattsjt]

yes, as mike points out, only the circulator handles the count sheet. our facility makes it a part of the patient's record so it is placed with the rest of standard forms (without blood or other bodily fluids on it from a conversion). the count sheet is a standard sheet with about a third of it blanks that you can fill in on the less frequently used items. i was surprised at first because i had come from a facility that had the count sheets in with the instruments. naturally the down side is that it may take more time to fill in the blanks if a surgeon uses non-standard (for our facility) instruments.

i can see both sides but think each has its own merits. so i have to say that either way is good.

[Mourkoth]

Whats a count sheet? I'm new to the OR and we count Laps, Rays needles, TW's loops, hypos, kb's bovie tips, scratch pad, ect. We don't however count instruments.